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"more time efficient than raking leaves" - i'll try sell that line to my customers next week!!!!!
Will they be sticking them back on in spring?!
Literally " What the hell" ?? Is that a wind up?
Ridiculous!
Sounds reasonable to me
Surely, like everyother council in britain they would owna billygoat or similar - leeds operates a converted Bin wagon that has an extension pipe out the back, those guys clear meters a min of ground.
That courtyard couldnt take more than 45-1h to vac every leaf up....
Chris R Selwyn-Smith said:
do you really think a press or media bod would have the faintest idea what pollarding is, let alone what their gardeners are doing?
The chances are they dont know much if anything at all about what was ahppening and just paniced and ran with what at a glace looks like leaf collecting.
Gary RK said:
Maybe selective journalism? T
he Guardian reports:
"The parliamentary authorities have defended their decision to ask a gardener to remove each leaf manually from trees outside the House of Commons to save time spent raking them up.
The incident led to accusations on Twitter that autumn had been cancelled by Westminster, when a female worker on a step ladder was spotted taking down yellow leaves, one by one, from a circle of lime trees.
Although typical winter temperatures have not yet arrived in London, the gardener stripped bare the trees that border the square below Big Ben, instead of allowing them to fall naturally.
Asked about the decision, a Commons spokesman said: “If we waited for the leaves to fall off it would waste a lot of time raking them up. It is more time efficient.”
In a further comment, he added: “The House of Commons employs a gardening service which covers maintenance of more than 145 trees on the parliamentary estate as well as all grassed areas, planted areas, indoor plants, containers and window boxes."